Word: lumberjacking
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...moonlight nights. Several correspondents wrote that the birds had swooped close to their heads, had only snapped their beaks before darting away. The majority of victims, however, had actually been struck with beak or claws. Frequently the skin was painfully lacerated. One correspondent wrote that he knew a lumberjack who had suffered from a clawed neck for several months. In Louisiana, a Negro complained that an owl had gouged his eye out. The birds in one U. S. town developed a peculiar antipathy for policemen, made frequent passes at their blue-capped heads...
...Judiciary Society for the Prevention of Delays in the Law, an endower of Michigan charities by his will to the extent of more than $40,000,000; at his home in Manistee, Mich., where he had long lived the solitary life and worn the decrepit clothes of the pioneer lumberjack...
Rebecca West, English lady novelist, considers this frontier, blow-in-your-pile, forty-niner spirit charming. So it may be to a few; the most delicate women may like men with hairy wrists. But New York's lumberjack psychology dispels any idea that America is civilized. Rather it seems that here are the germs of new Dark Ages...
...play in which a lumberjack tore the chemise off a young girl and tried forcibly to deflower her. (The Virgin...
Grange began to play football on the high school team of Wheaton, Ill. His father, once a lumberjack, had encouraged him to use his body; he was heavy for his age. His first year in high school he played end and excited no particular awe. Next season he developed into an able quarterback, moved the year following to halfback, his regular position. He runs with a long bounding stride far better adapted to open field gains than line-plunging. He is not, as some have declared, an extraordinary sprinter. Though fast, he eludes tacklers rather by the perfect rhythm...